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User Manual
Arduino Materia 101
Arduino Materia 101 is a printer that supports
both stand-alone operation and control
from a computer (OS X, Windows or Linux).
In both cases, the LCD Panel provides
functionality for booth status and editing.
infOrmatiOn screen
When the printer is printing or waiting
for a job, it fills the the screen’s 4 rows
(composed of 20 characters) with
the following information (Fig.1):
The first line contains the extruder’s
actual temperature followed by a zero.
The temperature is in degrees Celsius.
The second line on the left indicates
the current extruder-position in X-and
Y-coordinates, and on the right, you see
the position of the bed, or z-axis. The
value is in millimeters, with two decimals
to indicate hundredths of millimeters.
The third row on the left shows the Feed
Rate percentage of the expected print speed
within the G-code. A lower percentage
will slow down the speed and higher
values increase the speed. You change the
speed by turning the knob on the printer
when you are in the information screen.
Also on the third line, in the center, is the
percentage of the file that has been read
from the SD card. It starts with 0%, then goes
up to 100% when the print is completed.
To the right of this is the elapsed time from
the start of printing, expressed in hours and
minutes.
The fourth line contains messages that
can be generated by the G-code file with
a special command, or the firmware of the
printer in specific situations.
the cOntrOl knOb
To the right of the display is a knob which
rotates with small clicks and can be pressed
as a button. With this knob you can interact
with Arduino Materia 101: turning it clockwise
will decrease the selected value, turning it
anti-clockwise will increase the selected
value. During menu scrolling, rotation anti-
clockwise moves the marker downwards,
and clockwise moves it upwards.
When the display is on the information
screen mentioned in the beginning of this
chapter, the rotation of the knob changes
the Feed Rate percentage, increasing or
decreasing the speed of all the movements
and therefore also the printing speed.
access tO the
PrinciPal menu
Pressing the knob on the information screen
will access the main menu. Remember that
the menu displayed depends on the state
of the printer. If it is waiting to run a job, it
offers the menu “prepare” and while you
are printing it offers the menu “tune”.
The voices and the features available in these
two modes are different and it is important
to know them, to avoid losing time looking
for functions that are in another mode.
1st level
—
Info Screen
—
Prepare
—
Print from SD
—
Reset
1° level printer in print
—
Info Screen
—
Tune
—
Pause Print
—
Stop Print
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Reset
“PrePare” menu
This menu is used to set up and manage
the printer for subsequent operations
such as printing or shutting down.
Fig. 1